Man gets life for sex offense

Victim was age 5 at the time

9:40 PM,
Oct. 2, 2012

Joshua Hoffman

Written by

Vanessa Junkin
Staff Writer

A 35-year-old Hebron man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for committing a sexual offense against a young girl.

Joshua Amen Huffman was found guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, second- and third-degree sexual offense and related charges by a Wicomico County jury July 23. The jury heard testimony about how Huffman abused a then-5-year-old girl at his former home on West Walnut Street.

Judge D. William Simpson sentenced Huffman. He was facing a minimum 15-year sentence to a maximum life sentence on the second-degree sexual offense charge and an additional 25 years for sexual abuse of a ...